Re:sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety
by steveklabnik on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:31PM
(#35758327)
> which (as binjooou stated) is currently at 1013 lines.
That doesn't mean there are a thousand dependencies. Dependencies take far more than one line in a lockfile.
Re:sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety
by jmillikin on Saturday April 29, 2023 @08:02PM
(#35758508)
You may want to re-read their comment. They said "1000 line long dependency file", not 1000 dependencies.
Re:sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety
by steveklabnik on Saturday April 29, 2023 @08:18PM
(#35758589)
Sure. It's worth pointing out this discrepancy even if they didn't mean to imply it, because not everybody knows that this is the case.
Re:sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety
by tempaccount420 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @12:05PM
(#35763858)
That's not what they said.
I love Rust as a language, but one of the challenges with many projects currently written in it is that they follow the NPM model of using dozens of tiny dependencies for even trivial functionality. Luckily this seems to be limited to users of crates.io for now, and maybe things will change as the library situation matures.